Greenbank: In the Country of the Past - Softcover
Winner: Canadian Historical Association - Best Regional History, 1988
Using the lives of four families as its focus, Greenbank broadens to explore and capture with extraordinary vividness life as a whole in early
Canada. The remarkable will of the early pioneers, and the dissipation of that will in succeeding generations; the creation of an educational system from scratch; the hardships of everyday life, and the simple recreations that helped to dispel them; the coming of the railways; the subcurrent of alcohol's influence on the culture, and the fight against it; the harsh ethic of evangelism, which gave shape to so many of the attitudes of the people — all these are recurrent themes in Greenbank. Within this broad canvas the lives of individual people are the brush strokes that bring life as a whole into vivid and poignant focus.
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Canada in 1988 to extraordinary acclaim, Greenbank is now available throughout the world in an accessible paperback format.
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About the Author:
Born and raised in Manitoba, William Graham has distinguished himself as a soldier and Staff Officer in World War II, as Executive Vice President of MacLaren Advertising, in variouys cultural positions (including Chairman of the Board of the National Theatre School), and as the author of 'The Tiger of Canada West: The Biography of William Dunlop', which won the University of British Columbia Award for Popular Biogrpahy. Now retired, William Graham has lived for many years at Belleview Farm, Greenbank.
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- PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0921149999
- ISBN 13 9780921149996
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages326
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